4th International Workshop on Green and Cloud Computing Management (GCM'2013)

Cloud computing has become a very hot topic over the past few years. One of the main requirements in cloud computing environments is a high degree of automation for provisioning and dynamic management of IT resources (compute, storage and network resources) and services. Also, in cloud computing environment composed of large virtualized datacenters, energy consumption and carbon footprint have become major concerns which significantly impact resource management. The GCM workshop will focus on management and control issues related to dependability, scalabilitity, performance and configuration at each level of cloud computing infrastructures, but also on green computing issues in such environments like energy efficiency, carbon footprint reduction and cooling. This raises the issue of management automation for multi- criteria optimization (including Green metrics) at each level of a cloud environment.